Speed of BIND vs. W2k DNS

[Barry Finkel]

"alevey" <alevey at home.com> wrote:

> You missed a HUGE aspect of W2K DNS... multi-master. No single point of
> failure, unlike BIND.

As has been posted previously, with a MS Active Directory-integrated DNS,
there are times when the zones on each of the Domain Controllers has different
serial numbers.  I have also noticed this in our W2k testbed (until we decided
that we did not need AD-integrated zones).  We had one case where a zone on a
single AD-integrated zone (i.e., only one DC) became corrupted (lower serial
number) after the DC had a non-clean shutdown and reboot (e.g., after a power
failure).  I do not consider this a case of "No single point of failure".
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